Beeston Hall is a rather nicer house than mine, dammit.
I was out there surveying the old ice house in the woods but it was a lovely day so I spent my lunch break wandering the grounds and taking photographs that I knew one day I might find a use for.
As we discovered in the previous post, most of Norfolk is built on chalk beds dumped here when the glaciers retreated at the end of the last ice age, which some people assume to be 10 to 12,000 years ago but which I am pretty damned sure happened only last month.
And what - geology 101 students - do we find in chalk beds?
Yup: layers of flint.
Norfolk has no other natural building stone so most of our vernacular buildings and a lot of our major ones are built of knapped flint, which has its own weird beauty.
Beeston has a lovely park, which is sometimes open to the public, but not on the day I was there.
The lake is a wonderful place to chill on a hot summer's day.
Anyhoo … more Norfolk and Norwich will no doubt turn up here over the next few days, if you're into that kind of thing.
TTFN.
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Wow, that third photo is beautiful! It would make a lovely painting, don' you think, Dive? You should make that your project for the day.
Great pics....yes that is a good idea Robyn, he can make good use of his time and paint, such talent going to waste.. oh yes Dive and did you remember to do my japanese card????
Talk later.x
Robyn, I remember going through a phase at college of trying to paint photorealistic scenes. The camera's depth of field means you end up painting lots of fuzzy, out of focus stuff like the leaves at the top of that photo.
Mum: yes I did do your Japanese calligraphy, though it took seven attempts and a lot of profanity.
Thanks Son xx
The flint makes for interesting patterns on the house. Is it a shiny material or matte? The park indeed looks lovely, as do your photos. Maybe you'll get a chance to stroll the grounds come spring. (and then you can show us :) )
I don't know how I'm going to convince my husband to move. Baby steps.
WTF is TTFN?
Mum. No Problem.
Ms.M: Flint is shiny when it's wet, semi-shiny when it's knapped and matt when it's dry.
I'll post some more tomorrow to show you.
Petrea: TTFN is "ta-ta for now." Dumb but it's what the English say.
Okay. TTYL.
Hee hee.
Now I know why my rhododendron died; it obviously should have had soggy feet!
Beeston is a rather nice "house" and the park is lovely; I think I'll take a leaf out of their book and plant more lawn here, that way Ian will do all the mowing and I can sit back in a deck chair and simply observe!
I do love the expression "vernacular buildings". You are a gem my dearest Dive and I'm so sorry that while I've been f..tar..ing about on f/book, I've not come here more frequently to see and read your thoughts since you are such a wonderful inspiration to me.
TTFN xx
Thank you Dive for sharing your beloved Norfolk, Norwich with us. I've been under the weather both figuratively and literally ever since I helped the daughter build her snow goblin. Thank you also for your "glimpse" of spring.
Mme: sorry to hear about your rhododendron. I always have trouble with those as the soil around here is not acidic enough.
You have good reasons to be on FB rather than Blogger. I must confess it is nice to still be able to keep track of you over there, even though I have cut my FB use down to almost nothing now.
Neetzy. Snow goblins can be pretty contagious. Steer clear of them for the rest of the winter and keep warm!
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